Also, they’ve sucked ever since they stopped having just basic smiley faces.
Come at me!
This is exactly the kind of post this community is for. You’re couldn’t be more wrong, take my upvotes you incorrect bastard!
Damn, you’re absolutely right. What a thing to remember.
There’s nothing to remember here, the dude just didn’t know what they were called as a kid. They’ve been minifigs since their creation in the late 70s.
Yes there is. At least in in German everyone used to call them “Lego Männchen”, which means “little men”.
I agree with you, and thus have to downvote?
Our advertising policy requires us to call them “generic Danish interlocking children’s building set” men. 😆
But yeah, agree. I think they were better when they were just generic yellow humanoids with smiley faces and assorted wigs/hats.
I don’t think as I child I ever ascribed them a gender of their own; they were always the player character in the world’s I’d build. e.g. if I was playing with them, they were boys and they were girls when my sister was playing with them.
FWIW, one of the best parts of the Foosball Table set (21337) is the shear number of wigs and faces it comes with so you can totally customize your players. It comes with 22 “generic Danish interlocking children’s building set” men and 44 unique wigs/heads. It’s pretty cool imo
Why not Lego person instead of Lego man?
I don’t understand the question. There are girl Lego Men and boy Lego Men.
Sure, that’s true, but using Lego boys and Lego girls and just Lego people in general works too and is simpler, right?
I’m sure explaining that “Man is more like human in this case and not a gender or sex” is fun sometimes but ideas are evolving with more people and eventually it will just look too much like “Man is dogwhistle for subjugating women under men by calling them men”.
Is this bad connotation that more people will see over time worth holding onto the word Man as meaning everybody when we could just evolve our usage of language?
I was always partial to “Lego guys” myself.
Lego dudes
That is also acceptable.
Lego are bricks, even the people. Minifigs are bullshit impersonations of Lego.
I can respect this stance when put angrily like this.
Every debate is improved with David Mitchell style angry logic.
It certainly works on Would I Lie To You.
Minifigs are smashed up and used to create minifignewtons, which are the subsidiary units of fignewtons per square metre, also known as a FigPascal; a measurement of fig-based soft biscuitness.
Ok but how many bald eagles per football field is that?
2.732 Firkins
Ask ShatGPT.
Flying Squid, I usually like your posts and comments but today. Today you’ve made me angry.
Whatever. You’re a “BigFig.” You won’t even fit with regular Lego blocks.
Leave my Dollar Store Chinese knock offs alone!
As someone who will go to any length for a pun, certainly if it’s a physical one, my fig jam will be more tasty due to this change
I believe you mean men jam.
I didn’t, but now I do
Compromise: Minimen
You only like the plain faces? Man. I used to take a soldering iron to the beat up ones so I could create mutants to attack the ‘good guys’…
What- I ask you- what is the point of throwing a Lego space ship at the wall if your space man isn’t going to smile when he’s dead?
Who calls them minifigs?
The Lego group themselves, for one
Lots of people devoted to Legos. Especially the ones who hate that I just wrote ‘Legos.’
The Lego company, since around 1980. It’s been the official name since their creation.
They are referred to as Minifigures by Lego themselves. https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/minifigures
Lego is entitled to be incorrect.
Nvidia (who makes the RTX 4080Ti graphics card) can tell me the Ti is pronounced “tie” all they want. They are wrong. It’s “tee eye”. I will die on this hill.
Ngl I assumed this (pronouncing the letters as letters) was the correct way, because I thought that the Ti had something to do with a little element called Titanium, and last I checked that is how one read symbols on the periodic table.
That’s the best part. It is a reference to titanium.
I read the Ti in the periodic table as “titanium”, not as “tie”… I mean, if you don’t read them as the names of the elements, what would you even read, say, Pb or Hg as…?
Right but you wouldn’t say “the symbol for lead is ‘peeb’” you’d say “…P b.”
Yes, exactly. It’s either tee eye or titanium, but I can’t see how it can possibly be tie.
“Pee Bee”, “Haitch Gee”?
Yes, of course, but I was trying to point out how claiming it means titanium doesn’t really work as an excuse to pronounce it “tie”; it’s either “tee eye” or “titanium”, but “tie” makes no sense.
Their old CEO pronounced it correctly, it’s the new guy who’s dumb
Your stance is entirely reasonable and I support it.
Pretty sure the inventor of the “gif” stated that it’s supposed to be pronounced “jif” but he too is completely wrong.
Jraphics Interchange Format. 🤷♂️
Competing with J-Pheg
Lego mans*
Great post, worst opinion I’ve seen here in a while!
